Top Law News Man freed in rape case as wife turns hostile April 12, 2015 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Man freed in rape case as wife turns hostile A man, accused of raping and threatening a woman, has been acquitted by a Delhi court on the ground that she was happily married to him and had lodged a false case under pressure from her parents. Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhatt absolved the man, a west Delhi resident, of the offences, saying that the woman turned hostile […] Read more » Additional Sessions Judge Virender Bhatt featured Man freed in rape case rape case wife turns hostile
Top Law News Pvt firm drags Centre to high court on supply of condoms April 12, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment A condom manufacturer has dragged the Centre to Delhi High Court, expressing apprehension that it may be deprived of a contract for supply of over 100 million pieces of male contraceptives despite edging out others in the tender process. Pending the matter in which the private company cited the government’s previous year’s decision to involve […] Read more » accredited social health activists ASHA condoms featured Justice Badar Durrez Ahmed justice Sanjeev Sachdeva National Rural Health Mission NRHM
Top Law News Delhi HC asks steel company to pay Coal India 3 months’ holding cost for coal stock April 12, 2015 / April 12, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Delhi High Court has suggested a steel company to consider depositing three months’ holding charges with Coal India Ltd (CIL) towards safety and security of 78,000 metric tonne of coal rejects left behind by it at a mine in Jharkhand. Justice Rajiv Shakdher said Electrosteel Castings Ltd (ESCL) can deposit the holding cost, which […] Read more » Coal India coal stock Delhi High Court featured pay Coal India 3 months' holding cost
Top Law News Govt in no haste to notify law scrapping collegium system April 12, 2015 / April 12, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Government seems to be in no hurry to bring into force a law which would end the over two-decade-long collegium system of appointment of judges and would await the outcome of proceedings in the Supreme Court on Wednesday before taking a final call. While referring the petitions challenging the validity of the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act […] Read more » collegium system featured Law Minister D V Sadananda Gowda law scrapping collegium system National Judicial Appointments Commission Act
Top Law News Congress MLA’s bail plea rejected by Gauhati HC April 12, 2015 / April 12, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Gauhati High Court has rejected the interim anticipatory bail applications of controversial sitting Congress MLA Rumi Nath in connection with alleged links with a kingpin of a pan India auto theft gang and arms dealer Anil Chauhan who was arrested recently. A single bench comprising Justice Indira Shah rejected two bail pleas of Nath yesterday […] Read more » bail plea bail plea of Rumi Nath Congress MLA Rumi Nath featured Gauhati HC
Top Law News Arms Act case against Salman: HC rejects Salman’s plea April 11, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Rajasthan High Court today rejected actor Salman Khan’s plea against a trial court order allowing four more witnesses in the Arms Act case in connection with the 1998 blackbuck poaching incident. The examination of these four new witnesses will now begin in the trial court on Monday. “Khan had moved an application in the […] Read more » 1998 blackbuck poaching incident Arms Act case Arms Act case against Salman Blackbuck poaching featured government counsel Vikram Singh Rajpurohit Justice Nirmal Jeet Kaur Rajasthan High Court Salman
Top Law News Hit-n-run:Salman insists he was not driving April 11, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment Alleging that “evidence had been manufactured to falsely implicate him” in the , Bollywood actor Salman Khan today told the trial court here that there were circumstances to show that he was not driving the car which rammed into a shop killing one person and injuring four. Read more » 2002 Hit-n-run case featured Hit-n-run Salman insists he was not driving Salman Khan Salman Khan in hit and run case
Top Law News Hyderabad HC poses queries to AP cops on smugglers death April 11, 2015 / April 11, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Hyderabad HC today sought to know if Andhra Pradesh Police have registered a case of unnatural death in connection with the killing of 20 people in a police operation in Chittoor district. Additional Advocate General (AAG) D Srinivas submitted before the court that a magisterial inquiry is underway into the April 7 operation as […] Read more » AP cops on smugglers death featured Hyderabad HC queries to AP cops
Bar, Bench & Firm News Top Law News Complaint against judges must come with verifiable material:HC April 11, 2015 / April 11, 2015 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Complaint against judges must come with verifiable material:HC To prevent frivolous complaint against judges, the Bombay High Court has made it mandatory that a complaint on an affidavit must be submitted along with “verifiable material” substantiating the allegation. “A complaint making allegations against members of the district judiciary will not be entertained and no action will be taken thereon unless it is accompanied […] Read more » Bombay High Court Complaint against high court judges Complaint against judges featured high court's registrar general Mangesh Patil verifiable material
Top Law News SC to hear plea against re-promulgated land ordinance April 11, 2015 / April 11, 2015 by Legal India Admin | Leave a Comment The Supreme Court on Friday agreed to hear on Monday the plea of farmers’ organisations challenging legality of the fresh promulgation of the land ordinance by the Narendra Modi-led government. “We will have it on Monday,” a bench comprising Chief Justice H L Dattu and Justice Arun Mishra said, when senior advocate Indira Jaisingh, appearing […] Read more » Bharatiya Kishan Union Chief Justice H.L. Dattu Chogama Vikas Avam Delhi Grameen Samaj featured Gram Sewa Samiti Justice Arun Mishra Land acquisition land ordinance re-promulgated land ordinance Rehabilitation and Resettlement (Amendment) Ordinance 2015 Right to Fair Compensation & Transparency in Land Acquisition senior advocate Indira Jaisingh
Top Law News Satyam’s Raju and brother get seven yrs jail April 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | 1 Comment on Satyam’s Raju and brother get seven yrs jail Satyam scam kingpin B Ramalinga Raju and his brother B Rama Raju were today sentenced to seven years rigorous imprisonment and fined a whopping Rs 5.5 crore after they were convicted by a special court in the Rs 7000-crore accounting fraud that shook the corporate world six years ago. Eight others, including former Chief Financial […] Read more » featured
Top Law News 2002 Gujarat riots: SC stays proceedings of Naroda Patiya case in HC for 2 months April 9, 2015 / April 9, 2015 by Legal India Admin | 2 Comments on 2002 Gujarat riots: SC stays proceedings of Naroda Patiya case in HC for 2 months The Supreme Court on Thursday stayed for two months proceedings in the Gujarat High Court on appeals filed by the convicts in the 2002 Naroda Patiya case in which was awarded life sentence.”There will be interim stay on proceedings in the High Court on the appeals for two months,” a bench comprising Chief Justice HL […] Read more » 2002 Gujarat riots Chief Justice HL Dattu featured former minister Maya Kodnani Justice MB Lokur Justice MY Iqbal Naroda Patiya case SC stays proceedings of Naroda Patiya case
